Namibia: Informal Settlements Not Going Away - VP Iyambo

18 October 2017

Swakopmund — Chasing away squatters and demolishing illegal settlements would never solve the problem of informal settlements, Vice-President Nickey Iyambo told a gathering of local and regional authority leaders in Swakopmund on Monday. The only way forward, the vice-president said, was for local authorities to find lasting solutions to respond to the needs of squatters and to expedite the delivery of serviced land on which people can build homes and live a dignified life.Iyambo was speaking at the first joint conference of the Association for Local Authorities in Namibia (ALAN) annual general meeting and the sixth Alliance of Mayors' and Municipal Leaders on HIV/Aids Annual Partners Orientation conference currently underway in Swakopmund.

Attending the conference are about 450 delegates from as far as South Africa, Botswana and Zambia.

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